New Articulate 360 Feature: Content Library Media

I love having the new content available. I just wanted to feedback some thoughts on the usability.

Currently we can only search for content using the search field, having a browse via categories would be a helpful option to have.

It would also be helpful to be able to see the metadata/tags that a media item has, so that we could search on a similar but different tag and hopefully refine the results.

There's a lot of spare room between the zoom slider and buttons and the insert button at the bottom of the search window where metadata/tags for the selected media could be displayed.

Edit: added screenshot and also to note searching for "All" or "all" in videos certainly doesn't show everything

All great ideas, David! Thanks for sharing them here with the screenshot as well. 

Will do, thank you!

Sharon might have a real issue.  When I locate image assets, I've seen the file size say it's 5,000 px width, but when Storyline pulls in larger images it will size them down usually to better fit the stage.

i wonder if the image still has its full size in the software which could slow down things if you had a lot of huge files with 5000px width.

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This could also enlarge the Storyline file with lots of these huge files.

if videos are oversized from content library too, then this could quickly blow up the story file size.

Icons that have no "body fill" or are see through are not clickable, making them pure ornamentation and mostly useless for interactions without workarounds. 

Hello, I have Articulate Storyline 3. Is it possible to get Content Library with Articulate Storyline 3? It only appears to have one human character, can I pay to download more? Thanks

Hi Tom,

Content library is one of the features accessible through an Articulate 360 subscription. It's not something you have access to through Storyline 3 at this point. 

We'd always love to hear your feedback on what things you'd like to see in Articulate products and feel free to submit those as a Feature request here!

Hi Soren,

I saw that Mike helped you out in that other discussion - that the icons are similar to shapes in Storyline, and so the "empty" space won't be clickable. He offered some other thoughts in that discussion too! 

Hi Alison,

You mentioned that you edited to share a screenshot, but nothing is attached here. You'd need to visit this forum discussion and use the "add attachment" at the bottom of the reply window to upload a file here.

Hi Ashley,

I believe Alison was quoting my previous post, not trying to add an attachment herself.

Why not use Add Image? It shows in the body of the message without anyone having to download stuff first

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Wow. Yeah. That's weird. I wasn't even trying to do ANYTHING with attachments.  I was just trying to "quote" I few things I really liked from David Kettle's post  (eg. BROWSE via categories, and how searching for "all" doesn't really SHOW all).

Much sorry's for any confusion this has caused.

Alison 

Another suggestion for the content library: some background music would be a useful addition.

Being able to get some high quality music to go with animations, intros and to set the tone would be very useful.

No worries at all Allison - just wanted to make sure we got you the help needed! 

Soren, you can also add an image directly into a response from the ELH site - you can't do it using a reply to an email notification though. 

Looking for some insight from the Articulate community.  We currently use Adobe Stock for images, and previously used Shutterstock.  We're considering upgrading from SL2 to 360. 

What are your thoughts on the "over 1.5 million" photos, videos, illustrations, and icons that have been added to the Content Library?  Is there enough variety in the Content Library?  For example, if I search for "business woman isolated", am I going to get a lot of good matches?  Just trying to figure out if we're going to even need Adobe Stock if we upgrade to 360.  

I've been using the free trial of 360, but it does not allow me to view the images that I've searched for.  Instead, I can only see a triangle with an exclamation point in the middle. 

Thanks in advance for any and all feedback!

Hi Richard,

Great questions! I’m not an instructional designer myself, but the community is full of E-Learning professionals who can share their experience and advice here

What I can do is share a sneak peek of the search term you mentioned above:

Hope that helps and good luck :)

Hi again Richard - 

I do want to circle back around and mention that you should be able to see all of those images during your trial. Your firewall may be blocking your access.

If you take a look at this article, there are some items that you can allowlist.

If you need further assistance, you can reach out to our support team here.

This is a great suggestion.  I went looking for something like this the other day for an animation we were doing.  Is there anywhere else to get free background music tracks?

Hi Catherine

Tracy Parish has put together a fabulous website with links to lots of resources - might be helpful.

That is fabulous, thanks Wendy!  

I think generic stock libraries such as Adobe/Fotolia, Shutterstock etc will always have more images as they will include a very wide range of subjects. The established libraries will also have a much wider variety as they have had time to build up their collection.

The benefit 360's library brings is that it is tailored towards e-learning, it's just getting started so it won't have the same breadth of content as more established libraries.

The only other e-learning tailored content library I've seen is www.elearningbrothers.com

They have been around for a while so they have things like templates for specific applications including Storyline and Presenter as well as the other big names in e-learning software. They have absolutely loads of cut-out people, the disadvantage is that it will be another cost, as it would be a separate subscription.

Hello,

I am having issues again with the Content Library being "offline". Do I need to upgrade again to see the library?

thank you, Mary

Hi Mary,

Are you currently connected to the internet? If not, Storyline won't be able to connect to the Content Library. If you are connected and still having difficulty accessing it, can you look to see if you're beyond a firewall or something is blocking our network endpoints?